Students from the Icelandic Academy of the Arts

The annual “Workshop Seyðisfjörður” began in middle February for the graduating class of fine art art students in the Icelandic Academy of the Arts. The process ends with an exhibition that opens March 1 in Skaftfell. The workshop is a…
Workshop for children and RIFF selection
Guided tour and workshop for families Saturday Nov 9, at 15.00 Hanna Christel Sigurkarlsdóttir, educational manager at Skaftfell, will offer a gudied tour for families through the exhibition “Fancy-Cake in the Sun” followed by a workshop. The event is free…
Guided tour and workshop for families

Hanna Christel Sigurkarlsdóttir, educational manager at Skaftfell, will offer a gudied tour for families through the exhibition “Fancy-Cake in the Sun” followed by a workshop. The event is free of charge, with no age limit but in Icelandic. Everybody is…
The Visual Art Day – Open studios
Every year the Association of Visual Artists in Iceland celebrate the Visual Art day. The event will take place this coming Saturday, November 2, and artists all over the country will participate. Visual artists in Egilstaðir and Seyðisfjörður will take…
Guided tour
Skaftfell offers a guided tour through the exhibition ÂFancy-Cake in the Sun Wednesday Oct 28, 15.00 Admission 500 ISK Language English The tour gives an insight to the history of Skaftfell and life and works of Swiss artists Dieter Roth.…
Night Fall
Saturday October 12th from 14:00 to dusk Night Fall A live radio art performance by Anna Friz (CA) with special guest Konrad Korabiewski  (PL/DK/IS). Anna Friz has been transmitting the radio art beacon Radiotelegraph from 7.-11. October at sundown, simulcast on low-watt FM radio to Seyðisfjörður and to the…
Artist Talk #14
Skaftfell is currently hosting five Artists-in-Recidence: Anna Friz from Canada, à se Eg from Denmark, Björn Olsson, Helena Wikström and Gerd Aurell from Sweden. This coming Friday, Sept. 20, they will present their work and subject matter in an Artists Talk at the Bookshop-Projectspace, at 13.00. Light refreshments.
Seyðisfjörður carpeting

Thursday August 29, from 21.00 Visual studies of the weather, light, wind and other environmental data collected by Michal Kindernay (CZ) during his current stay as an artist in residence at Skaftfell, Hóll, will be presented in an installation at The…
Mapping artistic practise and working relationships in Seyðisfjörður